Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

Once a year or so, all of CIB gets together in person and records an episode. This is that episode, and coincidentally it’s a milestone episode—number 200 of this iteration of the show! Did we do anything special, or really prepare anything at all for such a momentous occasion? No, of course not! We’re just chatting with the Olympics on in the background, and we play our usual assortment of games....

CIB returns to podcast feeds all over the known universe with freshly COVID-inflected takes on the latest world-shattering push notifications you probably swiped away without a moment’s hesitation. That plus a final YOUTH BASEBALL update for the summer, our usual nonsense and bickering and games, and a brief review of The Bear. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you...

A very busy news weekend has turned what was supposed to be a little league baseball recap episode into 90 minutes of discussion about Donald Trump’s brush with death. We talk about how much worse this could have been, the staggering failure of the Secret Service, and how and why we might have gotten here. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You c...

CIB returns to find out if we overreacted to Biden’s disastrous first debate performance, if the Supreme Court has gone FULL MAGA, and to discuss the garbage pop culture we’ve consumed in the last week. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can...

Two old men got together on Thursday night and one of them proved that he has no business being president, and the other was Donald Trump. Cast Iron Brains is here to discuss our mounting dread and panic and if anything can be done about it. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack , leave a comment on the s...

We are once again here to discuss thrilling YOUTH SPORT, along with really not very much else. Sorry! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can send us an email here . Enjoy! Show Rundown Open — Abe explains what we’ve missed in the news, and a...

It’s more or less summer around here, so we’re largely ignoring the news in favor of the DRAMA and INTRIGUE of youth sport. Surely the Supreme Court will make big news over the next couple of weeks that we’ll have no choice but to talk about, but for now you can enjoy us blathering on about swim meets and corrupt little leagues. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made yo...

TKTKTK Open — Abe Across America 19:53 — Our Bogus Future: Is it actually way worse than previously acknowledged? 58:30 — Bad people are better at sports! 1:05:54 — Did Mark Strassmann, CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent, Get Off a Good One? 1:12:26 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game 1:20:52 — Wrap-up! Leaving Las Vegas; Clipped; Speed Racer; Road House (2024) TKTKTK

The greatest youth baseball recap podcast on your radio dial is back with that diamond drama you crave, along with our usual dip into the WGAS NewsBag and our regular rotation of games. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can send us an email...

We’re back to our regularly-scheduled Monday night recording with talk of how much Justice Sam Alito and has in common with local little league umpires, a brief dip into the WGAS NewsBag, and plenty of other silliness along the way. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack , leave a comment on the show’s pag...

Here is a podcast! It’s a podcast like many others, in that it is a lot of blathering and aimlessness and general silliness. But it is also a podcast unique in the known podcasting universe, in that the thoughts and words expressed here have never been expressed in this precise way at any point up until this very moment. Who could dare not listen?! Listen, as you must! Has something we said, or fa...

This week we’re trying to figure out what sorts of conversations are appropriate for the group chat and what belongs in some other medium, Apple’s latest humanity-annihilating advertising campaign, and why the Biden administration and campaign seems so uninterested in talking to vast number of normies who aren’t currently occupying tents on college campuses around the country. Listen, if you must!...

Cast Iron Brains is inadvisably back in front of the recording devices this week to bleakly contemplate a future to be determined by people who know enough to care about something but don’t care enough to really know about anything. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack , leave a comment on the show’s pag...

Your favorite Little League Baseball recap show returns with all of your favorite segments and silliness, along with an extended recounting of our own sins as twenty-somethings. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can send us an email here . E...

The only podcast not to be sacrificed to the inscrutable gods during the eclipse makes its triumphant return to feeds all over the world with talk of the transcendent experience of napping through your spouse’s childbirth experience, road trips to whole other countries, and our usual complaints about the news and culture of the week. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, ma...

This episode of CIB is packed with nearly every segment we’ve ever done. We’ve got Pop Quiz, Hotshot!, Cast Iron Balls, the WGAS NewsBag, Strassmann, the Billboard Game—it’s all your rowdy friends here on a Monday night! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack , leave a comment on the show’s page on our web...

It’s not really springtime until CIB complains about daylight savings time for the third time in two weeks and remarks on the character defects of a bunch of eleven-year-olds. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can send us an email here . Enj...

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The Morning Press is eleven minutes or so of the news of the day, and is a production of the BrainIron dot com multinational media empire. Please direct comments and complaints to brainironpodcast@gmail.com, or visit the website at www.brainiron.com . For a transcript of today’s episode and links to the stories referenced, find The Morning Press at brainiron.substack.com . To support this and the...

CIB is back from an important mission of careful observation of the State of the Union, the Republican response to the State of the Union, the offerings at the local theater, and the Academy Awards and now we want to talk about all of those things, for some reason. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack ,...

The Morning Press is eleven minutes or so of the news of the day, and is a production of the BrainIron dot com multinational media empire. Please direct comments and complaints to brainironpodcast@gmail.com, or visit the website at www.brainiron.com . For a transcript of today’s episode and links to the stories referenced, find The Morning Press at brainiron.substack.com . To support this and the...

One of the most successful and long-lasting shows in the history of the form regains control of the top of your podcasting feed this week with yapping about ourselves, our relationship with technology, and the political news of the week, along with our regular assortment of of silly games and nonsense. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can t...

The Morning Press is eleven minutes or so of the news of the day, and is a production of the BrainIron dot com multinational media empire. Please direct comments and complaints to brainironpodcast@gmail.com, or visit the website at www.brainiron.com . For a transcript of today’s episode and links to the stories referenced, find The Morning Press at brainiron.substack.com . To support this and the...

The Morning Press is eleven minutes or so of the news of the day, and is a production of the BrainIron dot com multinational media empire. Please direct comments and complaints to brainironpodcast@gmail.com, or visit the website at www.brainiron.com . For a transcript of today’s episode and links to the stories referenced, find The Morning Press at brainiron.substack.com . To support this and the...

After two months of getting a feel for 2024, we’re finally ready to unveil a few BOLD predictions about the coming year. We also spend some time at the theater and the slopes, like some truly insufferable ELITES, and yap about the news of the week, along with our usual nonsense. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on o...